ITALIAN STANDPOINT.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 86, 11 April 1912, Page 7

ITALIAN STANDPOINT.

At the beginning of last month the Rome correspondent of The Times yrrote : — "The Italian newspapers, Ministerial and other, adopt a reserved attdfcude in discussing the peace overtuxes set on foot by Russia. The anxiety of the five Powers to discover a means of putting an end to the war is considered as a recognition on their part of the loyal attempts made by Italy to restrict in their common interests her field of combat. As Italy, however, has clearly announced the sole terms upon which pW:o would be possible— namely, her full and absolute sovereignty' in Tripoli— it is taken for granted that any overtures made by the peace-making Po*ere will be bafced upon those irreducible terms. With those overtures, therefore, Italy cannot be immediately concerned, since, by the nature of the case, they must ba addressed directly to the Sublime Porte, and not to her. In no Italian iournal is there any hint of the possibility of a compromise on any terms. ATTITUDE OF THE OTTOMAN GOVERNMENT. An official telegram from Constantinople, received in Vienna about the same time, stated that the Ottoman Ambassadors had been instructed to declare emphatically to tse Great Pow*ers that no agreement with Italy was possible on the basis of the Italian decree of annexation. "Seeing that the decree of annexation has been ratified by an enormous majority in the Italian Chamber, and unanimously by the Senate, the attitude of Turkey would appear (said tne Vienna correspondent of Tho Times) to exclude all prospect of peace in the near future. Nothing positive is Known herev concerning the reported action of Russia with the support of Great Britain and France in favour of peace, but it ie not believed that if Buch action be contemplated, AuetriaHungary and Germany -will associate themselves very energetically with it. The mood of Turkey is apparently not thought favourable for successful intervention at .present.